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NASA get going on Nano-Sats
NASA said today it would team with m2mi to develop very small satellites, called nanosats which weigh between 11 to 110lb, for the development of telecommunications and networking services in space. NASA says large groups of nanosatellites can be grouped in a constellation, that will be placed in low Earth orbit to offer new telecommunications and networking systems and services.NASA and m2mi will develop what they call fifth generation telecommunications and networking systems for TCP/IP-based networks and related services. Nanosatellites will be produced using low-cost, mass-production techniques, according to m2mi. "The constellation will provide a robust, global, space-based, high-speed network for communication, data storage and Earth observations," said m2mi Chief Executive Officer Geoff Brown Hmm, know any intelligence agencies that might need such a thing in the face of chinese and russian ASATs? The cooperative effort will combine NASA's expertise in nanosensors, wireless networks and nanosatellite technologies with m2mi's unique capabilities in software technology, sensors, global system awareness, adaptive control and commercialization capabilities. Fifth Generation technology, or 5G, incorporates VoIP, video, data, wireless, and an integrated machine-to-machine intelligence layer, for information exchange and use, NASA said. Took them long enough... I and an R&D group broached this idea about 10 years ago, and pushed it 5 years ago inside the intelligence/aeospace community. We called them "cheap sats". We were met with a collective yawn, since the IC and Big Aerospace is wedded to the One Big Multibillion-Dollar satellite way of doing things. Like the one we just shot down because it failed, and is probably leaving a big gap in intelligence coverage. /SITYS. Ive been harping on them for years here. /continues banging drum in hopes that the DoD and IC wake up Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-25 |
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